My Stand on Free Verse

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Charles
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My Stand on Free Verse

Poem contests that require free verse
I avoid like a plague
I entered this one to take a stand
Poetry should have meter and rhyme
Or to me it’s something else
Like an extract from a book
It's supposed to have complex patterns
Of one sort or another
Perceived as a coherent whole
Even this definition is gobbledygook
Certainly not definitive at all
So that where I am, today
If free verse is your bag
Please don’t be offended
Help me to understand

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Hi there..here is what makes Free Verse..Verse and NOT gobbledgook [LOVe that word!] and NOT narrative. Poetic vehicles are used...synecdoche, personification, simile, metaphor, Meiosis, and Hyperbole, alliteration.. ;). You see above [like a plague] is a simile [as a coherant whole] too ;) but above what you have written is uninteresting there is No action no climax..

Debbie, thanks for the response, I will admit I'm not familiar with all the "vehicles" you identified. I do plan to read the responses to your contest; however, I don't expect a "light bulb" to turn on; but I'll try.